FLASH: Flash vs. Dir for CD-rom development?

[David Gary]

Hiya guys, MM,


I have a question about the performance of Flash's animations compared to the

animations' of Director. I notice alot of CD-rom developers use Dir for their

interactivity in conjuction with QT movies(.mov). I also notice that by doing

this

the Dir animations, calling up QT(quicktime) movies, play the animations much

faster

in the .mov format than say the animations imported as a sequence of images and

played with Flash3's engine. Since you cant implement AVI, MOV or any other

video format into your flash files, but only imported sequences instead, does

this mean that Flash is inadequate for CD-rom development use?

Of course CD development gives much more freedom in file size than web

development. Because of this and Flash's limited vector tools, importing image

sequence or calling upon video fomats created in more powerful animation

software

im more widely used, 3D apps, photo enhancing, etc in CD-rom production.


I guess I would like to know why Flash is such a pig on processors compared

to Dir?


I would also like to know if future versions of Flash will be able to access

.mov, avi,

mpeg, etc. formats from within the player.


I know there are developers on this list experimenting with both. Any

disscusion?

Can some of you speak of your findings?


-DG-



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